Cost Intelligence Manager

Cost Intelligence Manager

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water:

We offer a competitive salary, depending on experience (£55,000 to £70,000).

A company car lease/allowance scheme (£2,510 cash allowance).

Annual incentive related bonus (up to 10% of annual salary).

Private health care (self only).

Attractive pension scheme (up to 10% company contribution).

Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary.

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - plus an extra wellness day!

A great benefits package - choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.

Retail savings scheme.

Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

This role will initially be based in Bradford but we're moving our office to Leeds Valley Park in summer 2026, so you'll be based there in the future. Leeds/Bradford/Hybrid Working (1 office day a week).

Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Cost Intelligence Manager to join the Commercial Assurance function at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers.

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it's so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire's water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region's health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. The Commercial Assurance function are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

The Cost Intelligence Manager is a vital role in enhancing commercial assurance capabilities, driving greater cost transparency, control, and value across complex, high-spend contracts with the objective of reducing value leakage by embedding preventative controls and commercial insights into day-to-day operations. To lead the development and delivery of cost intelligence capabilities that support strategic decision-making, commercial assurance, and value optimisation across the organisation, unlocking sustainable economic value.

The role holder will be responsible for leading a programme of cost intelligence dashboard systems designed to gather, analyse, and interpret cost data to provide actionable insights, benchmarks, and forecasts that enhance commercial performance and risk management.

Embed a new systemised capability to proactively prevent contract value leakage supporting our drive to establishing robust supplier relationship management. This will be achieved through the development and deployment of an AI-enabled cost intelligence platform designed to provide contract managers with live dashboards, enabling data-led decisions to enhance commercial performance and prevent value leakage at source.

To oversee the development and maintenance programme of cost intelligence systems, designed to flag value leakage exceptions on complex, high spend contracts.

To provide insights into cost drivers and variances to support strategic planning and risk mitigation.

Drive continuous improvement in cost intelligence processes, tools, and data governance.

Support the development of cost models and scenario analyses to evaluate commercial options and risks carried out through value engineering.

To lead, managing and develop a team of Cost Intelligence Business Partners to successfully deliver the cost intelligence programme to time, cost and quality, providing…